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A horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse
Answer for the clue "A horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse ", 4 letters:
curb
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Word definitions for curb in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES control/curb inflation (= prevent it from increasing more ) ▪ These measures are designed to curb inflation. curb the excesses of sth (= control or limit bad behaviour ) ▪ A strong press can help to curb the excesses ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "strap passing under the jaw of a horse" (used to restrain the animal), from Old French courbe (12c.) "curb on a horse," from Latin curvus , from curvare "to bend" (see curve (v.)). Meaning "enclosed framework" is from 1510s, probably originally ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curb \Curb\, n. That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse. He that before ran in the pastures ...
Usage examples of curb.
Clovis must curb a licentious spirit, which would aggravate the misery of the vanquished, whilst it corrupted the union and discipline of the conquerors.
Lars Aquavit take my bag and lead me out to the embassy car at the curb.
One person, Grace Birk, a middle-aged woman who worked at the bank, took three, and a man stepped down from the curb to help her carry them without crushing them.
Starkey pushed and shoved, trying to get the people to move even as police units bucked over the curb and roared toward her across the park -- -- and nothing happened.
Thus the good man believed he would avoid the horned trappings of cuckoldom, and would still be able to girth, bridle, and curb the factious innocence of his wife, which struggled like a mule held by a rope.
Inside, instead of counters and rows of seats there was simply a curbed white roadbed running through the center of the building.
The curbed roadbed cut a neat crease through it all, forming a teardrop-shaped loop of white concrete circling around the fountain.
They stopped on the walk beside the same curbed roadbed on which Gray had shown Laura the Model Six.
The path that paralleled the left side of the curbed roadbed was perfect for runningthe concrete slab new and wide and flat.
The curbed roadbed began to speed by as the car accelerated toward the assembly building.
It was just the car moving noiselessly down the curbed roadbed that ran parallel to the sidewalk.
In this world of electric cars in curbed roadbeds, however, there were no such rich-boy toys.
He saw no trace of a black Nova curbed along the Avenue or on the immediate side streets.
Then this fine curber of phantasies got back to his house in the morning by the time Taschereau came to invite him to spend the day at La Grenadiere, and the cuckold always found the priest asleep in his bed.
Sidewalks had widened, stretched by the muscular fingers of money, and the pour of office workers had curdled into a cyclonic multitude, well-dressed, cologned, and silently pouting because the limousines double-parked along each and every curb were not idling obediently for it.